I am considering two options.

Granpa

It is becoming more and more obvious that getting rid of the current owner might prove to be impossible, or at best very lengthy. I will never support any other Club but Charlton, but basically I am not prepared to give the odious so and so any more of my money, he can hit the lower leagues without me. I am therefore considering two options.

1) Ebsfleet is a shorter, cheaper and easier journey for me, it has a wealthy owner who does not appear to live with the fairies, and the involvement of Peter Varney who actually has good experience of running a football club. They are ambitious and before long might find themselves in the same league as Charlton.

2) Get myself a season ticket at the Olympic Park, and spend some time enjoying Premiership football just up the road from The Valley, and seeing a lot of South London youngsters become West Ham supporters.

One thing I am not going to do is to allow the Belgian nitwit and his useless puppet to continue to take the piss. His political ideas appear to have been a failure, and the same will happen to his football network. What next I wonder, answers on a postcard to the nearest Asylum.

C_A_F_C

3) Soccer Saturday

MrLargo

Granpa said:

I will never support any other Club but Charlton

Ebbsfleet - fine
West Ham - surely not serious. That would be supporting another club. They've had more than enough support from the taxpayer already without us voluntarily lining their pockets.

Lincsaddick

I've got a very soft spot for West Ham, one of my sons played for them for some time, was treated very well even though he never made the league team. I was at school in the east end, have still got a few friends there, lived over the river for a long time and have the old east end spirit in my blood .. the point ??

If I wasn't addicted to the CAFC drug I would LOVE to go and see the Hammers playing in their new ground despite all the controversy surrounding the 'move' and to follow them on their travels in the north and midlands .. BUT .. an addiction is an addiction .. if you're considering either of the choices you mention then you aint a REAL Addick Addict

Brendan_O_Connell

Please do not do number 2, I beg you!!

C_A_F_C

Brendan_O_Connell said:

Please do not do number 2, I beg you!!

Do you say this when a guest asks to use your toilet?

CAFCTrev

Granpa said:

I will never support any other Club but Charlton

Granpa said:

2) Get myself a season ticket at the Olympic Park, and spend some time enjoying Premiership football

WTF?

Karim_myBagheri

you could try either if you want to watch live football but to tell you the truth it wont be the same. I have gone to Ebbsfleet a few times but I cant get that excited when they score and I certainly don't get angry or moody if they lose. i also would never fight for any cause the fans feel is important, like we are doing against this regime and back when we fought for the Valley.

i guess maybe after some time you could feel for a new club the way you have felt for Charlton but I honestly think it would take bloody years. the only people on this forum who might know a bit about are the ones who don't live here anymore and go to a local team near them, but like going to west ham or Ebbsfleet or Barcelona none of it will compare with the emotions felt when watching Charlton win away.

agim

You need to pull yourself together. This lot won't be around forever, yes it's shit at the moment but it won't last

SID

Why would any supporter of any football team go and watch a (sometimes only, admittedly) rival football team? What possible satisfaction can you get from doing it? Sounds a bit like cutting your nose off to me TBH.

oldbloke

dementia

ken_shabby

With Sid on this. The cheating Hamsters are a rival. I support Dartford as a non league team, and O don't see any conflict- they're worlds apart. Ebbsfleet is a similar case. I would be botcotting if I lived in the UK, so back to Dartford for me. But these freaks won't go on forever.

Brendan_O_Connell

C_A_F_C said:

Brendan_O_Connell said:

Please do not do number 2, I beg you!!

Do you say this when a guest asks to use your toilet?

Guests are politely asked to use the outhouse.

cafcsinger

Probably just a wind up, strange thread.

CAFCTrev

Is this the same chap who had a pic of themselves on the Charlton facebook group wearing a Charlton shirt while holding a west ham season ticket reservation letter?

Bedsaddick

West Ham . are you serious ? If you are considering going there you never were a proper Charlton fan anyway.

Robbo on the wing

I gave up with this bloke after considering Ebbsfleet because it had a wealthy owner. Ironically option two followed along the same lines.
Football is not about either.

andynelson

If you start following another team you are supporting them, financially.

hoof_it_up_to_benty

If Charlton went out of existence I might consider going to watch Orient but as long as the Addicks exist I couldn't follow anyone else.

I hate West Ham, Palace and Millwall and have no interest in Ebbsfleet.

Covered End

You do what you want Granpa, but I'll always support Charlton.

Fiiish

This is purely Devil's advocate and I would not support this but by getting a season ticket at West Ham, isn't that even more of an impact on RD's plan than a boycott? Not only is he losing a paying customer, a rival is getting one and will be in a much stronger position than RD's business.

Stone

What is the attraction of watching West Ham play in an athletics stadium?
I'm no Hammers fan but it makes me weep to see them leave The Boleyn. So much history. Some will tell you it's called progress. I hate concrete dust bowls 'modern' grounds.

CharltonDave85

If you want a good laugh go watch ebsfleet(once called Gravesend till they should there name)

The_President

You cannot be disloyal to your heritage.
Anyone who goes to West Ham is not a true/real football fan.

AFKABartram

You need to consider the third option @Granpa , which is to completely ignore the first two options

LouisMend

Stone said:

What is the attraction of watching West Ham play in an athletics stadium?
I'm no Hammers fan but it makes me weep to see them leave The Boleyn. So much history. Some will tell you it's called progress. I hate concrete dust bowls 'modern' grounds.

100%.

C_Jensens_Love_Child

Acting like a customer by doing either of the two.

buckshee

I'm also quite close to Ebbsfleet. I won't be renewing at the Valley next season unless Roland and his puppet go so I'll probably head down to Stonebridge for my fix as many times as Charlton. Should my son decide that they are the team for him then so be it.

iamdan

I'll always be an addict.

TEL

Best plan would be to boycott the home games and just go to away games......that way youre supporting the team and not Duchatelet. Ive tried watching teams here in Australia...it just aint the same so Ive stopped bothering. There is only one club for me and thats Charlton.

RodneyCharltonTrotta

If there wasn't a Charlton I'd jack in football or just be a tourist and go to the odd big game like barca Madrid and be like one of those grinning Japanese idiots with a barca shirt on smiling and cheering as Ronaldo nets at the nou camp and taking a flurry of selfies on my phone.

Been to watch two or three Greenwich Borough games as my old man's involved with them and whilst it's good and would be great to watch them climb the leagues there's never gonna be the passion or commitment or interest that's been instilled in me with Charlton for nearly 30 years.

Cannot believe people would seriously consider going to another professional club. This is a blip in our history which will come to a natural conclusion and although I'm currently boycotting home games it would take somethinguunthinkable for me to turn my back on OUR club.

They'll be gone one day. Don't let the bastards grind you down.